NATIVE AMERICANA from Downtown Brown Books, ABAA

New York: Published by the American Folk-Lore Society, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. A collection of tales from the Heiltsuk people, a First Nations group on Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. xiii, 178 pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy bound in the publisher's dark plum colored cloth.

Tuscaloosa, AL: FC2, 2008. First Edition. Trade paperback. Fine. A paperback original novel by the prolific and acclaimed horror writer and member of the Blackfeet Tribe of Montana. First edition (stated). A fine copy in wrappers. Signed by Jones on the title page.

New York: Saga Press, 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A recent novel by the prolific and acclaimed horror writer and member of the Blackfeet Tribe of Montana. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with small bends at the corners. Signed by Jones on the title page;… Read more about this item

Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. A well-meaning and self-serving account of the Modoc War, one of the last major battles between the US military and a Native American tribe. The Modocs, who holed up in the lava beds in far northeastern California and southeastern Oregon were finally defeated and forced to relocate to… Read more about this item

[Washington, D.C.]: (n.p.), 1874. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very good. A printed report on three claims to large tracts of New Mexico based on 18th century Spanish land grants: a claim from the Native Zia, Santa Ana, and Jemez pueblos and two claims by old New Mexican families, one near Santa Fe, the other in Navajo territory. Each claim… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. A children's biography of Osceola and the Seminole War in Florida. 180 pages. No. 50 in the Landmark Books series. First edition (no statement of later printing; this book is the last on the Landmark list at the back of the book and on the rear… Read more about this item

[Scottsdale, AZ?]: Apocrypha Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Fritz Scholder (1937-2005), an important American figurative painter, is best known for his expressionistic portraits of Native Americans (he was an enrolled member of the Luiseño tribe). But his artistic practice was not limited to the visual arts. For a brief period, following a collaborative project with Leonard Baskin… Read more about this item

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. An account of the often brutal interactions between white settlers and the Native Americans living in the Round Valley, in Northern Mendocino County, California. Since descendants of some of the worst offenders still live in the region, rumors of their attempts to supress the book abound.… Read more about this item

Arizona: Synaesthesia Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Two short excerpts from The Things They Carried printed letterpress and issued in an edition of 125 copies-99 in paper wrappers and 26 bound in boards, all signed by O'Brien and the illustrator, Fritz Scholder. Scholder, part Luseño, was an acclaimed Native American artist who incorporated Pop Art ideas into… Read more about this item

Arizona: Synaesthesia Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Two short excerpts from The Things They Carried printed letterpress and issued in an edition of 125 copies-99 in paper wrappers and 26 bound in boards, all signed by O'Brien and the illustrator, Fritz Scholder. Scholder, part Luseño, was an acclaimed Native American artist who incorporated Pop Art ideas into… Read more about this item

Spokane, WA: C. A. Libby, 1910. Ephemera. Very good. An image of two tepees in a forested setting, presumably outside of Spokane, Washington. The tepees are assembled from wooden poles wrapped with a variety of blankets and other large pieces of cloth. This image probably depicts a camp of members of the Spokane tribe. Charles Libby opened… Read more about this item

New York: Ballantine Books, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. An anthology assembled by Allen, a fine poet of Laguna Pueblo and Sioux descent. Contributors include E. Pauline Johnson, John Oskison, D'Arcy McNickle, Simon Ortiz, and others. I 321 pages. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). Fine in a fine jacket. Signed by Allen… Read more about this item

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1992. First Edition. Trade paperback. Very good. An omnibus poetry collection combining three previous volumes (Going for the Rain; A Good Journey; and Fight Back: For the Sake of the People, For the Sake of the Land). With a substantial introduction by Ortiz. Ortiz is a native of the Acoma Pueblo. xiv,… Read more about this item

Nome, Alaska: F. H. Nowell, 1905. Ephemera. Near fine. Portrait of Wy-ung-ena, an Inuit (possibly Alutiiq) woman, smoking a pipe and surrounded by metal pots, probably taken in Port Douglas, Alaska. Wy-ung-ena was a frequent subject for Nowell. One of his most widely reproduced images is a picture of Wy-ung-ena and her husband A-pa-look, and their… Read more about this item

Nome, Alaska: F. H. Nowell, 1904. Ephemera. Near fine. A platinum print of a striking Inuit woman dressed in furs and staring down the camera. This image, with no title in the negative, is most often encountered as a photogravure entitled "Eskimo Belle." Nowell (1864-1960) worked in Nome, Alaska, from 1901 to 1909. In 1909, he moved… Read more about this item

Ashland, OR: B. L. Cunningham, 1905. Ephemera. Near fine. A gelatin silver print of an elderly man in profile, holding a mirror in one hand and trimming his beard with scissors held in the other hand. The subject's clothes, a thick cloth jacket and canvas jeans, are worn and full of holes. The image is captioned… Read more about this item

[Nome, Alaska]: F. H. Nowell, 1905. Ephemera. Near fine. Portrait of an Inuit woman, Kow-ear-nuk, standing at a slight angle to the camera, with a rack of split, drying salmon behind her. A similar image, captioned "Kow-ear-nuk and his (sic) drying salmon", appeared in many editions of Ella Higginson's Alaska: The Great Country, first published in 1908, and… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Putnam and Valentine, 1900. Ephemera. Very good. A gelatin silver print photograph showing a Pima (probably) woman kneeling on the ground with a basket on her lap. Behind her sits a young child, with the door of a wickiup dwelling in the background. She is surrounded by basket-making supplies, laying on cloth blankets, in finished baskets,… Read more about this item

Nome, Alaska: F. T. Nowell, 1905. Ephemera. Near fine. A striking gelatin silver print of an Alaskan Inuit woman looking directly into the camera and wearing a hooded fur parka. Two elements make this an unusual Nowell portrait. First, it is a studio image and the vast majority of his pictures of Inuits are taken on location.… Read more about this item

[Butte, MT]: [N. A. Forsyth], 1910. Ephemera. Very good. A stereoview showing three Native women in a lean-to made of tree branches and blankets. In the center is a very old woman wearing a fabric shift and an ornately decorated belt. Most stereoviews by Norman A. Forsyth (1869-1949) are described as depicting the Blackfeet tribe, but… Read more about this item